Picking Rotten Cherries At The Washington Post

I’m headed to DC shortly, land of cherry trees and politicized science. Angela Fritz at the fake news Washington Post is back pushing the climate scam, claiming that cherry trees are blooming earlier than they used to.

My wife had ordered a toy box from Little Tikes that despite being good sized will only hold about 1/2 of the toys we keep here for our Granddaughter. The thing cost $25.00 including delivery through Zulily. On Tuesdays she watches our 26 month old granddaughter Alison, and I happened to be home. The toy box came while Alison was here. Grandpa took the thing out of the box and did the tiny bit of assembly required. But knowing that often the big box a thing comes in is initially more entertaining than what came in it, I cut a window out of it and cut the flaps on one end to fashion doors and left it in the living room. Alison loved her little cardboard play house so much she didn’t want to leave it to take here standard nap time. Once she had her nap she was still playing in it when her Mom came to get her.

The kid is a sponge. She can count to 10 and recite her alphabet already. We’re currently working on getting her to learn to read the letters she already knows how to recite. I have a wall hanging with a picture of Lincoln giving the Gettysburg address and every US postage stamp ever issued with the likeness of Lincoln. She now knows how to say Gettysburg. But you sure have to watch what you say when she’s around.

It’s good to be G-parents. We can spoil her and give her back and Grandma is a past master at handling any misbehavior. And we have toys in the attic waiting for her to grow into them. She’s coming over for us to watch her in less than an hour. Warm enough for me to take her across the road to feed Holly the pony some carrots and an apple and for her to play in the sandbox for a bit.

Having a hard time teaching Alison (we call her “bug”) to trust the pony when feeding her. Holly is pretty gentle but those big teeth scare the bug. I have showed her how to rest the food in the palm of her hand with her hand open so the pony can get it without getting any fingers, but she ends up putting her hand through the fence then as Holly gets close dropping the carrot or apple segment on the ground as she jerks her hand back. It’ll just take time I guess.

As we have witnessed over the whole course of this scam; Global warming continually migrates anywhere in the world to wherever the scammers deem the weather best supports their scam and everywhere else is ignored.

You are correct John. The whole notion of a Radiative Greenhouse Effect (which is what AGW and the supposed CO2 warming is all about) is impossible in this universe. A cooler object (the atmosphere) cannot make a warmer object (the surface) warmer still. It is simply impossible and violates the Laws of Thermodynamics (and just about every other law of nature we know of).

Well if you’re an MSNBC viewer, you have no brain and therefore you ARE being controlled by those who want you to think exactly the way they want you to think.

I mean, have you seen how warmists’ heads practically explode when you confront them with confounding empirical data regarding climate change? It’s like their whole universe paradigm has been upended and they don’t know how to cope. But then instead of doing their own research and critical thinking, they go home and pout or post online about how triggered they were.

There is no hope for the far-left non-thinking liberals. They would rather have us all succumb to incompetence and group-think than perform introspection and swallow their pride.

“I think that the dangerous, you know, edges here are that he’s is trying to undermine the media, trying to make up his own facts. And it could be that, while unemployment and the economy worsens, he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think. And that is our job.”

So, if Joe had let her finish her thought what could she have said to modify “And That’s our job” to mean something else?

Hey Colorado, I am reminded of a story which I saw on the internet (that means it must be TRUE!) some years back. A wife suspected her husband of having an affair with another woman. The wife and a detective burst into a hotel room and caught the husband and mistress in bed together. The poor chap was so frightened and flustered that all he could do was yell, “IT’S NOT ME! IT’S NOT ME!!

When the Potomac was entirely snow and ice covered on March 7, 2015, it was the first time since DC became a city in 1800 that the Potomac had been ice covered in March.

Upon further review, the Potomac was frozen during March in the 1780’s, according to the Alexandria Gazette. Nevertheless, a one in 230 year event is still quite impressive and certainly does not indicate anything resembling catastrophic warming.

More fun over at the Verge. After describing the California flooding of 1861-2, the article blames the current flooding on… climate change!

“That’s the situation we’re in now, Ralph says, with about 30 atmospheric rivers since October 1st — and it’s something we can expect to see more of. As global temperatures continue to climb, the air can hold more water vapor — which means calmer winds, but warmer and wetter atmospheric rivers, more often. And that means more flooding.”

“The New York Times reported yesterday that the White House budget office has prepared a list of programs that could be eliminated in Trump’s first budget proposal. Among those programs are the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities and AmeriCorps… Other agencies on the budget office’s list of cuts include the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and the Corporation for National and Community Service, which finances programs run by AmeriCorps and SeniorCorps. The memo also proposed reducing funding for the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, a nonprofit organization focused on urban development.”

Around here, the cherry trees are blooming. Yawn, just another ‘normal’ year. The trees almost always are blooming around now. Sometimes a few days earlier and sometimes a few days later. IOW cherry trees do bloom in the winter. You just need to be about 6 degrees closer to the equator than DC.

We can play this game from the opposite end: to keep the total count similar to the one in the article, we can take those years when the days to bloom was >= 99 (29 years out of 96). If we do this we get the following (warmest-ever century in bold):